On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:16:56PM +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote: > soraberri wrote: > I have > > noticed that at the same screen resolution (1024x768) things are very > > different from the point of view of object sizes. Icons, buttons and > ............. > > The second thing is about screen displacement or shift. I have installed > > Fedora core3 in 6 different computers for now, all six with different > > hardware and three different monitor brands, and in all of them the same > > thing: the visible screen is shifted to the rigth, so I have to play > > with the monitor settings (hardware buttons) to adjust the screen. > > You have full control over this by "modelines" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > However, this is a bit of an advanced topic which would require some > reading/in-depth understanding of monitor timings. > > List, come to the rescue if you know of a simple application which will > interactively create these modelines for you... there is an application called xvidtune which is run from the command line. On this app (its a GUI) there are buttons which shift the display left right etc.. You should be able to adjust the display and then save the config. You can also change the resolution. -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
